Joblaze summary

The Engineering Manager for the Notifications Platform at Reddit will oversee a team dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports various notification systems. This role requires expertise in distributed systems, APIs, and operational excellence, along with a strong background in managing engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have a blend of technical and leadership skills, suited for those with significant experience in high-scale platform services. The position is pivotal in enhancing the reliability and quality of notifications, directly impacting user engagement across Reddit's vast community.

Joblaze insights

Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze August 28, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 28, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$170,000).
Starts above 58% of 12 comparable lead management roles in United States that list distributed systems we track (median $200,296 across 6 companies). See distributed systems salary trends
distributed systems appears in 2.7% of 634 comparable lead management roles in United States; cloud infrastructure appears in 1.4% of 634 comparable lead management roles in United States.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: Reddit lists $217,000–$303,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: APIs, Data storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, event-driven systems, messaging systems.
What seniority level is this role?: Reddit targets lead candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform role at Reddit.

From the original posting

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Notifications Platform (also known as Foundation) Team builds the durable infrastructure and services that power Reddit's push, email, and in-app notifications. We provide the APIs, eventing, delivery orchestration, preferences, templates, experimentation hooks, observability, and reliability foundations that enable product teams to reach Redditors with timely, trusted communications at scale.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications Platform team, shaping the systems that power the future of Notifications at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building reliable, scalable platform capabilities used by notification experiences across Reddit. This is a high-impact team that enables product velocity, improves notification quality and reliability, and helps Reddit connect people to the communities and conversations they care about.

If building resilient, high-scale distributed systems that make Reddit Notifications dependable and easy to evolve excites you, then you’ve found the right place.

What You’ll Do

Lead the team that architects, builds, and operates the Notifications Platform/Foundations at Reddit.
Set technical direction for shared platform capabilities spanning notification APIs, eventing and workflow orchestration, delivery pipelines, user preferences, templates, experimentation, and observability.
Collaborate closely with adjacent Notifications ML teams to build and productionize ML-powered notification systems, providing the scalable platform and operational foundations they need.
Partner with product and engineering teams to define clear platform contracts, improve developer experience, and enable teams to launch notification experiences safely and efficiently.
Drive the full development lifecycle: design, develop, test, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available services.
Establish strong practices for reliability, scalability, performance, privacy, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.

You Have:

2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Engineering Manager building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform services.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and APIs in production; experience with notification, messaging, communications, or other high-volume delivery systems is a plus.
Hands-on experience with highly available, low-latency services and operational excellence practices.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, data storage, streaming or messaging systems, and observability tooling.
Experience setting technical direction for platform teams and balancing consistency, extensibility, and team autonomy.
Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

$217,000—$303,000 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

Standard company text repeated across Reddit's postings is omitted here.

Engineering Manager, Notifications Platform

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